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We invite you to contribute your best work for presentation at the AMIA Annual Symposium – the foremost symposium for the science and practice of biomedical informatics. The AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium, to be held in San Francisco, November 3-7, 2018, invites submissions from informatics researchers and practitioners around the world.

Under the overall theme of “
Data, Technology, and Innovation for Better Health
” the Annual Symposium will build on more than 40 years of sharing pioneering research and insights for leveraging information to improve human health. Topics of interest span the spectrum from deciphering the underpinning phenomena of disease, to managing information and communications for improving patient care, to tracking the health of populations. The AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium will consider poster, podium abstract, regular paper, student paper, panel, demonstration, and workshop submissions that showcase the latest innovations from the community of biomedical informatics researchers and practitioners. We look forward to receiving your submissions by
March 8, 2018
, and seeing you in November!

IMPORTANT! The person designated as a PRESENTER will receive all communications from AMIA regarding the submission.

By submitting to the AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium, all presenters agree that if their submission is accepted, they will register for the full conference at the designated author registration rate.

Complete the online submission form as instructed and attach your submission formatted in compliance with the directions provided. Please review instructions and requirements for each of the major parts of a submission:

Thoughtful classification of your submission helps to ensure that each submission is reviewed by persons knowledgeable about its content. In addition, it helps greatly in structuring the meeting sessions, allowing better grouping of papers and presentations by area of interest. We recognize that no classification system is perfect and ask you to use your best judgment in making the determination for which themes and keywords best reflect your submission’s content.

Anyone who has studied or is working in the field of intercultural communication or management will be familiar with
Geert Hofstede’s
dimensional model of culture.

Based on empirical research with IBM employees in over 50 countries, the model illustrates how the dominant cultural preferences differ across national societies and gives insights into the consequences of bringing groups of people with different preferences together. Hofstede’s work has always been controversial. It has been widely applied to international management and is still a mainstay of many corporate intercultural training programmes. However, the model is also increasingly criticised for its limitations such as old data, one company approach and too few dimensions. There is no doubt that Hofstede’s model remains one of the most valuable pieces of work in the field of intercultural communication helping organisations to understand how they can collaborate more effectively across cultures – and if nothing else causing thought-provoking discussion and further developments in the field.

Hofstede’s dimensions

The four core dimensions are power distance, individualism versus collectivism, masculinity versus femininity and uncertainty avoidance. Partly in response to the criticisms mentioned above, a fifth dimension focused on long and short term time orientation based initially on a survey developed with Chinese employees was later added. In 2010 a sixth dimension was added to the model, Indulgence versus Restraint. This was based on Bulgarian sociologist Minkov’s label and also drew on the extensive
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. Indulgence societies tend to allow relatively free gratification of natural human desires related to enjoying life and having fun whereas Restraint societies are more likely to believe that such gratification needs to be curbed and regulated by strict
norms
. Indulgent cultures will tend to focus more on individual happiness and well being, leisure time is more important and there is greater freedom and personal control. This is in contrast with restrained cultures where positive emotions are less freely expressed and happiness, freedom and leisure are not given the same importance. The map below broadly reflects where indulgence and restraint tend to prevail.

Specifically, the researchers claim they were able to break the homegrown hash function “Curl” that IOTA was using as part of its digital signature scheme to secure user funds.Further, the researchers were able to demonstrate how an attacker could then forge a user’s digital signature and use it to steal funds.

Fortunately,IOTA has since fixed the bug in question. Furthermore, while the hash function was breakable, IOTA’s co-founder Dominik Schiener stated that forging users’ digital signaturesis extremely impractical due to the network topology and the way the wallet is structured.

Real-World Applications for IOTA

IOTA didn’t make it to the #11 spot on coinmarketcap.com without having some real-world use cases. Here are a few companies that currently use IOTA:

REFUNITE
partnered with IOTA to trace families thathave been separated during times of crisis:

IOTA and REFUNITE intend to explore access to critical information and the increasing opportunities that arise from a more connected world.

CarPass
,a company that guarantees correct mileage on your odometer by creating a “digital twin” of your car on the blockchain, partnered with IOTA to use MIOTA asits underlying cryptocurrency. CarPass initially used Ethereum for the transactions, but after realizing the potential in IOTA, they instantly switched over.

There are two main options for storing IOTA. The first is to
download the wallet from IOTA’sgithub
and install the node on your computer. Since you need to perform some work in order to send a transaction, you would need to run a node on your computer in order to send transactions on the IOTA network.

The other option is to use an exchange wallet, but do so at your own risk. Remember that if an exchange goes down or gets hacked, you will lose access to your MIOTA. The exchanges that currently support IOTA trading are
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, Coinone, Bitfinex, and OKEX.

Conclusion

IOTA is definitely at the forefront of cryptocurrency. With its state-of-the-art Tangle technology enabling instant and free transactions, it’s the main candidate for the emerging IoT market. Having partnerships and use cases in the real world serves as a proof of concept for IOTA’s vision. As the amount of smart devices increases every year, the number of use cases for IOTA will only grow, so it is natural to assume the currency’s price will also rise.

David Hamilton,
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, noted the following statistics: an estimated 80% of papers that are published in academic journals were never cited more than once. (In addition, self-citation accounted for up to 20% of all citations. It may not be a stretch to think that some of those solo citations came from the eponymous author[s].) On top of that, 10% of the academic journals probably got 90% of the citations.

Let me re-state this: 80 percent of studies that are peer-reviewed and published are (or were), it seems, so utterly useless that no one ever cites them more than once. (
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, estimates revealed that in the field of medicine, the percentage of papers without a single citation was about 46%; in the field of arts and humanities, an estimated 98% of papers go uncited.)

OK, so let’s pause for a moment and regroup. First, when I read/hear “thought leaders” (who shall remain nameless) claim to read all of the literature out there, I have to call BS. It’s simply not possible. Second, why would you want to? The above observations lead to the inevitable conclusion that most (by volume) of the published work on PubMed is barely fit to line the bottom of a bird cage.

It’s not lost on us that a heavily cited paper can be worse than useless and a thinly-cited one can be invaluable. A keen eye and good mental models can only get one so far. With more and more papers published by the minute, just how much noise is generated in the current landscape? Our conservative calculations show that, “
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.” To be sure, there’s still a formidable amount of information and knowledge waiting to be plucked from the literature. And a limited amount of time.

In 2015 I came to the realization that I was slipping. My “work” obligations, even with the huge reduction I deliberately made in exercise time, made it too difficult for me to keep up. The list of “To read” papers on my desktop was becoming an eyesore. I actually contemplated spending even more time on airplanes since that seemed to be best time for me to read. Yes, elective flights around the world just to read at 40,000 feet. The solution was obvious. I needed more brains. Literally more brains. So I hired them. Today, my practice employs a team of research analysts who are not just exceptionally bright and voracious consumers of literature, but also people who are so naturally curious (arguably the one skill I can’t really teach) that when you give them a problem, it’s just a matter of time until our collective knowledge on the topic will be increased.

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